UAB Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pathology Jay M. McDonald, MD, announces the appointment of Lea Novak, MD, as assistant professor with special interest and expertise in gynecologic pathology.

Dr. Novak graduated with honors from Charles University Medical School in Prague, Czech Republic, and completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Thomayer Hospital in Prague. Before joining the faculty, she completed a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at UAB, as well as a surgical/renal pathology fellowship and had training experience in gynecologic pathology at Duke University in North Carolina, under the direction of Dr. Stanley Robboy.

Dr. Novak is interested in laser confocal microscopy, and her current research focuses on glomerular immune complexes in IgA nephropathy.

She can be reached at 934-6031 or by e-mail at lnovak@uab.edu.